Choose Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm. Corporate presidents voted it the most valuable personality trait. It's the biggest single factor in successful selling. It wins ball games. Inspires audiences. Enhances learning. Builds team spirit. Propels careers. Makes dull days bright.

Choose enthusiasm by seeing your dreams come true. Think enthusiastically. Talk enthusiastically. Become enthusiastic by acting enthusiastic. Your thoughts and actions determine your level of enthusiasm.

Add Zip to Everything You Do.

Walk fast.

Put a bounce in your step.

A vigorous, hearty handshake indicates you are glad to be alive and happy to be with the other person.

A robust smile radiates enthusiasm.

Reply to the mundane, "How do you do?" with an attention getting, "Fantastic...and I'm going to get better!"

Put spirit into your speech by varying the pace, raising and lowering the pitch, changing the tone and modulation.

Talk with more than your mouth-use wide sweeping gestures. Don't hold back. Turn it on.

Force yourself to act with enthusiasm, and soon you will feel enthusiastic.

This is the era of dramatization. Simply stating the facts isn't enough. The truth must be made vibrant, arresting, theatrical. If you want to keep and hold someone's attention, you must use showmanship.